Hey, really great points.  Your tastes are all that matter and are never wrong.

I loved it, and critics loved it.  It’s not necessarily that audiences didn’t.  They just didn’t go see it in droves.

Che’s ‘stand-up’ can’t even be called comedy. She’s more like a self-help guru, or motivational speaker. She just yells self-congratulatory statements and toxic-positivity platitudes like “If you don’t like your life, change it!” Which apparently blows Miranda’s mind because she never knew such a thing was possible…

They should have made her more like the actor and had Miranda lose a bid for political office. 

This show is maddening. The hypocrisy of Miranda repeatedly cheating on Steve after everything in the first movie is infuriating, and more so that she never seems to question if she is doing the right thing. The lack of any kind of remorse is frustrating.

Someone else pointed out (possibly on this very website - I don’t remember where I saw the remark) that there’s an odious double standard when it comes to cheating in movies: when a man cheats on his wife that’s inexcusable, but when a woman cheats on her husband it’s OK provided it’s with a woman/non-binary person…

It’s not like she isn’t extremely trashy either way, though.

I can’t speak for her early work and I can’t speak for her non-single tracks, but her pop songs sound interchangeable with other pop stars songs. She wrote as much of a song like Bad Blood as Katy Perry wrote of any of her hits.

No, they never had that money. They don’t until they sell the stock. They had unrealized capital gains if they bought the stock more than a couple of years ago, but they didn’t have money. It is absolutely not the same thing. That’s why you don’t pay taxes on it until you sell it and turn it into money. If you…

Yeah, you don’t need to be an economics wizard to know that, but this is the AV Club.

No. They lost value. They don’t lose (or gain) money till they sell it.

Netflix didn’t lose any money. Market cap isn’t money. I know this site struggles with understanding what stocks even are, but it didn’t effect their balance sheet.

That’s what they get for cancelling Firefly.

They are publicly traded. It was probably required.

THE ARISTOCRATS!!!!!

THE ARISTOCRATS!!!!!

Vince Gilligan seems to be a genuinely nice showrunner. I don’t think I’ve heard any complaints about him.

SNL really just lifting entire sketches from Key and Peele now?

You seem to be misunderstanding what an audition is. She wasn’t forced to do it, and unless she’s self taping, the actors come to the director, not the other way around.

I don’t really get the first point - he didn’t force her to audition, if anything it seems pretty clear from the anecdote that he didn’t want her to. She wanted to so she paid her own way to do so. She could have easily said “fuck this guy, I’m not paying for my own ticket for a job interview.”